In 2008, the US-based multinational company Wal-Mart Stores acquired the Chilean retailer DyS, which already owned more than 250 stores across the country. Every year it opens new stores, and in only the first quarter of 2012 the company opened six stores in Santiago and two other cities. Currently the company owns more than 300 stores nationwide, including Hiper de Lider hypermarkets and Express de Lider supermarkets, and Ekono and ACuenta discounters.

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